Alert archive / West Virginia / 2002
Weather alerts in West Virginia, May 2002
96 weather alerts in May 2002, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 96
- Warnings
- 79
- Watches
- 17
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 2, 200231 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McDowell | 4 hr |
| May 2, 1:00 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 30 min |
| May 2, 1:20 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Summers | 25 min |
| May 2, 1:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 26 min |
| May 2, 1:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Monroe | 32 min |
| May 2, 2:06 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Gilmer | 24 min |
| May 2, 2:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tucker | 39 min |
| May 2, 4:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Brooke, Doddridge, Harrison, Marion, Marshall and 11 more | 4 hr |
| May 2, 6:38 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston | 3 hr |
| May 2, 9:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha and 10 more | 4 hr |
| May 2, 11:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan | 37 min |
| May 2, 11:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mingo | 31 min |
| May 2, 11:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 40 min |
| May 2, 11:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan, Mingo | 3 hr |
| May 2, 12:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Nicholas, Pendleton and 4 more | 5 hr |
| May 2, 12:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 23 min |
| May 2, 1:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Mercer | 3 hr |
| May 2, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | McDowell | 7 hr |
| May 2, 1:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell | 3 hr |
| May 2, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 37 min |
| May 2, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 4 more | 7 hr |
| May 2, 3:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan, Mingo | 3 hr |
| May 2, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 46 min |
| May 2, 4:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Mercer | 3 hr |
| May 2, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 6 hr |
| May 2, 4:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell | 3 hr |
| May 2, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 5 hr |
| May 2, 6:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan, Mingo | 3 hr |
| May 2, 6:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Monroe | 3 hr |
| May 2, 7:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Mercer | 2 hr |
| May 2, 7:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell | 6 hr |
| May 7, 10:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Gilmer, Roane | 3 hr |
| May 7, 2:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Webster | 108 min |
| May 7, 6:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha, Putnam | 3 hr |
| May 7, 6:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Nicholas, Webster | 3 hr |
| May 8, 6:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Mason | 24 min |
| May 8, 6:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Jackson | 36 min |
| May 8, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun | 32 min |
| May 8, 8:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gilmer | 36 min |
| May 9, 11:15 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Brooke, Cabell, Calhoun and 35 more | 5 hr |
| May 9, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson and 8 more | 5 hr |
| May 12, 10:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Monongalia, Ohio, Pleasants and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 12, 12:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Upshur | 38 min |
| May 12, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke, Hancock | 52 min |
| May 12, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Berkeley, Braxton, Doddridge, Gilmer, Grant and 21 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Wetzel | 81 min |
| May 12, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marion | 58 min |
| May 12, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Berkeley | 28 min |
| May 13, 9:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming | 45 min |
| May 13, 9:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Raleigh | 34 min |
| May 13, 10:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Greenbrier, McDowell, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 5 hr |
| May 13, 10:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Nicholas | 38 min |
| May 13, 10:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Mercer, Summers | 37 min |
| May 13, 10:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 64 min |
| May 13, 11:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 33 min |
| May 13, 1:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Jefferson | 23 min |
| May 13, 1:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jefferson | 6 hr |
| May 13, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Jefferson | 43 min |
| May 13, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan | 43 min |
| May 14, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Berkeley, Morgan | 24 min |
| May 14, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral | 37 min |
| May 14, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Jefferson | 50 min |
| May 14, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hardy, Pendleton | 45 min |
| May 14, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 48 min |
| May 14, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Hancock | 63 min |
| May 14, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke | 51 min |
| May 14, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Ohio | 41 min |
| May 26, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan | 6 hr |
| May 26, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Berkeley, Jefferson | 27 min |
| May 26, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Berkeley, Jefferson | 48 min |
| May 26, 3:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Berkeley, Jefferson | 53 min |
| May 26, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Jefferson | 40 min |
| May 26, 5:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Hampshire, Hardy | 53 min |
| May 26, 5:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan | 113 min |
| May 26, 5:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan | 110 min |
| May 26, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hampshire | 40 min |
| May 26, 5:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Fayette | 115 min |
| May 26, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette | 30 min |
| May 26, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hampshire | 47 min |
| May 26, 6:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Hampshire, Hardy | 56 min |
| May 26, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 24 min |
| May 26, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Morgan | 47 min |
| May 27, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hampshire | 36 min |
| May 27, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Grant, Hardy | 28 min |
| May 27, 4:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Hampshire, Hardy | 112 min |
| May 28, 2:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Hampshire | 3 hr |
| May 28, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Berkeley | 41 min |
| May 29, 3:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Grant | 3 hr |
| May 29, 4:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Tucker | 2 hr |
| May 29, 6:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Grant | 93 min |
| May 29, 6:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Tucker | 2 hr |
| May 29, 7:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Grant | 3 hr |
| May 31, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Ohio | 6 hr |
| May 31, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Hampshire, Jefferson, Morgan | 6 hr |
| May 31, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke | 57 min |
| May 31, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 66 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 46 |
| Tornado Warning | 5 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 12 |
| Tornado Watch | 5 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 28 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jefferson County14
- Hampshire County13
- McDowell County12
- Berkeley County12
- Hardy County10
- Logan County9
- Mercer County9
- Grant County8
- Morgan County8
- Summers County7
- Monroe County7
- Tucker County7
- Brooke County7
- Mingo County7
- Marshall County6
- Fayette County6
- Raleigh County5
- Gilmer County5
- Ohio County5
- Preston County5
- Wetzel County5
- Nicholas County5
- Pendleton County5
- Pocahontas County5
- Webster County5
- Hancock County5
- Mason County4
- Marion County4
- Monongalia County4
- Tyler County4
- Boone County4
- Greenbrier County4
- Mineral County4
- Barbour County3
- Doddridge County3
- Harrison County3
- Pleasants County3
- Taylor County3
- Braxton County3
- Kanawha County3
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.